The young waitress who was requested as a witness at Alberto Nisman’s apartment the night he was found dead, Natalia Gimena Fernández, arrived at the Prosecution Office to give testimony to prosecutor Viviana Fein.
The 26-year-old woman, who deposed for over three hours, was called to either ratify or deny her recent statements to reporters denouncing irregularities during the procedure at the crime scene.
“They drank mate (typical Argentinian herbal drink) and croissants. They touched everything. There were like 50 people (in the apartment). Prosecutor (Viviana Fein) asked ‘should we stop here and resume tomorrow?’,” Fernández told Clarín newspaper on Tuesday.
Upset by the remarks, Fein rejected everything, and said that she will not allow Fernández to slander her. She considered her statements “absurd.”
“Never in my entire life did I interrupt a procedure. It is embarrassing. Never, over the years, no prosecutor (interrupted a procedure). We never start a procedure and leave,” she said.
The witness also claimed that she was offered coffee from Nisman’s coffeemaker, Fein claimed the appliance was “never touched. It was not a typical coffeemaker.”
Fernández also said Fein showed her a bag with “five cartridge shells or something like that,” to which the prosecutor said: “There is a single empty cartridge and nothing else. Four bullets in the charger and one in (Nisman’s) brain, in the encephalic portion, there isn’t anything else.”
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